Archive for November, 2006

Battery

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Laurence Anderson
on November 29, 2006
in Apple, Links, Miscellaneous, Personal and Photos
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Battery, originally uploaded by amacgeni.us.

The battery in the above photo is pretty much shot. Let me explain, about a week ago I started having this weird problem that I just shrugged off, when my MacBook’s battery would charge to about 98/99% and the MagSafe would glow green, then amber, and the menu bar item in OS X would show the battery as charged, then charging. This was something I could ignore no problem, but then something else happened. I’d be using my MacBook without being plugged into the MagSafe the battery would get to no lower than 40% and instead of giving me a low battery warning and the machine going to sleep the machine would just shut off, no warning at all, then when I’d plug the MagSafe back in the machine would automatically restart on it’s own.

So I went searching around the MacBook Power and Batteries discussion forum at Apple and found that this has happened to a heck of a lot more people than me. So I printed out some examples/posts of this problem to take to the genius bar with me, because I had assumed that they had never seen this at my particular store, and to which I was right.

I took the machine to the bar and the genius reset the firmware, and a few other things and then determined that I’d need a replacement battery, which was fine with me seeing as how judging by the people in the discussion forums this was the fix to the problem that made me quite ok with it. So today after my mom gets home from work we’re heading over there to pickup the battery and have them just do a once over on the machine to see if it’s the battery or some kind of hardware problem.

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Leah Culver interview!

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Laurence Anderson
on November 27, 2006
in Apple, Articles, Business, Digg, Links, Miscellaneous, Noteworthy, Personal and Site
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Leah Culver's MacBook Pro

If you haven’t seen it on digg already or read about it on Leah’s website, Leah Culver is a 24 year old female who has come up with a brilliant idea! To pay for a new laptop to replace her aging 6 year old G3 iMac (nicknamed “Banquo”) she setup a website to take advertisements from whoever had the money to be laser etched into her new machine.

Working for Instructables part of Squid Labs she had access to the laser etching machine at Squid Labs to actually use for the etching of her brand new C2D MBP. I read about the story on digg and quickly zipped Leah off an email to have her on my podcast, PreviewCast, and to my amazement she responded that she’d love to, so we setup a date for yesterday (Sunday) and she co-hosted and was a special guest on Episode 14 (yet to be released).

I must say I enjoyed her company, she was a great participant, and she seemed to really enjoy herself. The episode will hopefully be released soon, so hold tight but until then you can visit Leah’s webpage and read up over there, and she also told us on the episode and I just IM’d her she’ll be updating the website in the near future so stay tuned!

ReviewMe

Published
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Laurence Anderson
on November 15, 2006
in Articles, Links and Personal
. 1 Comment

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The following is a paid review by ReviewMe

Yesterday, via Paul Stamatiou’s blog a read a review about a spamless email service, but it wasn’t until I read it a second time that I noticed he got paid to review it.

The service used was called ReviewMe, made by the great folks at Text Link Ads. ReviewMe takes a great approach to encourage communication between bloggers and others while giving the bloggers a bit of incentive.

ReviewMe is a collection of bloggers and advertisers. The bloggers are looking for a bit of spare change (like myself) and the advertisers just want to have their service/product reviewed by a blogger to encourage exposure or awareness. The blogger is paid based on the ranking of their blog and how much the advertisers are willing to shell out.

ReviewMe is going to (at least from what I can see) become a great way for bloggers to come up with original, popular, interesting content and still get a “reward” for their time or interaction and a great way for those who are wanting more exposure for a certain service or product to get the word out via a different medium than traditional advertising.

Granted some people may see this service as a way for bloggers to “sell out” I think it’s an amazing concept and a great solution to a simple problem - lacking content in many blogs. I enjoy ReviewMe, and if you’re an up and coming blogger or just a beginner I’d recommend you create an account.

One thing I forgot to mention, you do NOT have to always give a positive review - you are paid based on the fact you DID the review, not the opinion you have, which adds so much more to it.

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R.I.P. Myrna Seifert 1923-2006

Published
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Laurence Anderson
on November 15, 2006
in Business, Family, Miscellaneous, Noteworthy, Personal and Photos
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Myrna Seifert 1923-2006

This morning (November 15th, 2006) 5:50AM at the nursing home Myrna (”Mer”) passed away in her sleep, she was given relaxing drugs twice throughout the night so she went truly in peace.

1923-2006 - She was 83.

Her twin sister was 1923-2005 - She was 82, so she lived about a year after Mary (”Grammy”) passed away. Mer lasted in the nursing home about a year (it woulda been a year in a couple days).

The above photo was the one of the last ones taken by anybody (I took this one) on Saturday - the last time we saw her alive and the last time she saw us…

Bright and Early

Published
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Laurence Anderson
on November 11, 2006
in Links, Miscellaneous, Noteworthy and Personal
. 4 Comments


They see me snoozin’
I’m snorin’
Refusin’
They tryin’ to wake me bright and early
Tryin’ to wake me bright and early
Tryin’ to wake me bright and early
Think it’s just too bright and early
Go away it’s bright and early
My parents so loud;
They screamin’
They hopin’
That they gon’ wake me bright and early
Tryin’ to wake me bright and early
Can’t believe it’s bright and early
It’s just too bright and early
Don’t you know it’s bright and early

Parents think they can wake me up
I’m just gonna stay here and make it tough
I’m not going to school, I’ve had enough
But still mom and dad won’t shut up:
“Get dressed, eat now, gotta get to school
Don’t you know you’re actin’ like a fool?
This ain’t no sick day, it just ain’t cool
For you to always be disobeyin’ da rules.”
Mom, Dad, you ain’t know, I’m crazy like that
I’m lethargic, and I’m okay with it
I’m a teenager, so I get away with it
Watch me, I can go on all day like this
I don’t care what kind of breakfast you make
Don’t want none of your pancakes
You just givin’ me a major headache
Bright and early we gangstas hate
I’m not gonna rise and shine
You’re just wastin’ my time
Don’t you know that time is mine
If you won’t let me sleep, then I’ll just rhyme
Bus pulls up, gotta get on
There’s a reason you want me up at dawn
I’ve been sleepin’ for like an eon
You might think that’s too long
But then you’d be wrong

They see me sleepin’
I’m dozin’
I’m deep in
They tryin’ to wake me bright and early
Tryin’ to wake me bright and early
Tryin’ to wake me bright and early
Tryin’ to wake me bright and early
Tryin’ to wake me bright and early
My bed is so warm;
I’m comfy
They hopin’
That they gon’ wake me bright and early
Tryin’ to wake me bright and early
Tryin’ to wake me bright and early
Tryin’ to wake me bright and early
Tryin’ to wake me bright and early

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